The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15
NEWS GLEANINGS.

AT Wooster, O., on the 7th, Frederick
Roth was convicted of murder in the
first degree for killing his wife.
A public reception was given In Bos-
ton on the night of the 7th to Gen.
Paine and Edward Burgess, owner aud
designer respectively, of the Volunteer.
The Chicago post-office authorities
have obtained possession of a registered
mail-pouch, which had been cut open
and enptied. The pouch was
found in the room of lodg-
er at q Desplaines Street hotel
and with it large lot of international
postal cards, which had formed part of
the contents. The man was arrested,
but nothing has yet been learned as to
when, how, or where the property got
into his hands.
1t is positively denied that Judge
Manning has resigned as United States
minister to Mexico.
Contracts will at once be awarded for
three steamships for the line between
Vancouver and China and Japan.
Sentence has been suspended in the
case of Jake Sharp, the New York bribe-
giver, until the court of appeals review ews
the case.
Albert McConahy, "a patient in the
huntington County, Ind, insane asy-
lum, was scalded to death in bath tub
by careless attendants.
Mrs. Alamazon Clark, sister-in-law of
Massena Clark, the millionaire real es-
tate dealer, committed suicide at New
Haven, Conn.,, by shooting.
Proctor & Gamble, of Cincinnati,
have made their first semi-annual shar-
ing of the profits among their workmen,
s9S,000 being divided. The employees
made a holiday celebration of the
event.
The distillery of Ephraim Howe, on
Elm Street, New York, was destroyed
by fire on the 9th. Loss on building
and stock, $l75.000.
A New York dispatch of the 9th
says: The sale of the Baltimore & Ohio
Telegraph plant to the Western Union
was consummated to-day. Jay Gould
said: "We have bought the Balli-
more Il Ohio Telegraph Company.
We have paid for it or agreed to pay
the sum of $50 900"
On account of the infamous abuses
practiced upon immigrants at Castle
Garden, New York city, it is said the
| secretary of the treasury will cancel the
contract OF the government with the
New ork immigration commissioners.
During the month of September there
was net incres sc of $32 ,375 in cir
| culation and net increase of 81 ,264 ,12d
In the cash in the treasury.
The Interior Department has decided
| to adhere to the rule already in force
not to issue permits to persons to enter
| Indian Territory for hunting and fish
| ing.
Bids are invited by the city engineer
| for the new Chicago water tunnel, which
| q, III
| 1t is to be eight feet in diameter, and
| have capacity OF 10O,00O,0G0 gallons a
| day.
Advices from Baiaur, Afghanistan, say
| that Omra Kahn recently defeated Abu-
| Baker, son of Akoond, of Swat; that
| the Ameer requested the chiefs of the
/ nelghborlng tribes to punish the victor,
and that the whole of Bajaur has risen
| against Omra.
Diplomatic relations between the
French resident in Madagascar and the
| Malagasy ministry have been severed,
| and the French resident has hauled
| down the official flag and left the capi-
tai, returning to Tamatave. Hova, the
! foreign minister, has been exiled.
The Bulgarian government has dis
| covered a Hankofist plot for revolu-
| tlonary rising Sunday next on the
| opening of the election for members oil
| the Sobranje. Refugees had been pre-
pairing to act on the frontiers in concert
with Zankotist in the interior. Troops
have been sent to the suspected dis
tricts with orders to vigorously suppress
any attempt at an outbreak.
The mills of the Bloomington Rolling
Mill Company, at Bloomington, ILL.,,
burned on the 4th, together with 10000
bushels of grain. Loss, $4,000; nearly
covered by insurance.